PhD (Tas)

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Rapid modes of speciation, such as heterochrony, evolutionary changes in the timing of developmental events such as vegetative and reproductive phase change, and polyploidy, dramatic changes in chromosome number.

I am also interested in the conservation of endangered species, particularly Tasmanian eucalypts.

Research Areas:

• Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation  Read More
• Eucalypt genetics  Read More

Teaching

I am the coordinator for the 2nd year undergraduate course offerings in the School of Plant Science, where I run most of the practical course and the Plant Development part of Botany II. I am also the course coordinator for the summer field course, KPA375 Field Botany, and I participate in the practical component of KPA376 Genetics III and KPA379 Plant Ecology. I also teach genetics and evolution in first year (KPA150/KZA150).

Units

• KPA210 - Vegetation of Tasmania
  
• KPA214 - Plants in Action
  
• KPA215 - Genetics and Evolution
  
• KPA375 - Field Botany
  
• KPZ164 - Cell Biology, Genetics and Evolution
  

Selected Publications:

• Jackson, WD, Wiltshire, RJE, 2001, '‘Historical Taxonomy and a Resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium Complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania’', Australian Systematic Botany, 14, pgs. 937-969
• McGowen, MH, Wiltshire, RJE, Potts, BM, Vaillancourt, RE, 2001, 'The origin of Eucalyptus vernicosa, a unique shrub eucalypt’', Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 74, pgs. 397-405
• Turner, CL, Wiltshire, RJE, Potts, BM, Vaillancourt, RE, 2001, 'Variation in seedling morphology in the Eucalyptus risdonii-E. tenuiramis complex’', Australian Journal of Botany, 49, pgs. 43-54
• W.D. Jackson and R.J.E. Wiltshire, 2001, 'Historical taxonomy and a resolution of the Stylidium graminifolium complex (Stylidiaceae) in Tasmania', Aust. Syst. Bot., pgs. in press
• C. Turner, R. J. E. Wiltshire*, B. M. Potts, and R. E. Vaillancourt, 2001, 'Variation in seedling morphology in the Eucalyptus risdonii - E. tenuiramis complex', Aust. J. Bot., 49, pgs. 43-54
• Jordan, G.J., Potts, B.M. and Wiltshire, R.J.E, 1999, 'Strong, independent, quantitative genetic control of the timing of vegetative phase change and first flowering in Eucalyptus globulus spp. globulus (Tasmanian Blue Gum)', Heridity , 83, pgs. 179-187
• Wiltshire, R.J.E. Potts, B.M. and Reid, J.B, 1998, 'Genetic control of reproductive and vegetative phase change in the Eucalyptus risdonii/E. tenuiramis complex', Australian Journal of Botany , 46, pgs. 45-63

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• Polyploidy in the Stylidium graminifolium complex